On the contrary, Eckhart would say that God is in General Motors, and that the one who says otherwise does not understand God. The one who cannot find...
Okay, well I'm glad to hear that. Yes, well in general when you use a term like, "Aristotle's induction," I need to know what you mean by that if I am...
I mean, that's impressive if you've read all of that. I sure haven't. Different in what ways? And what is his method? I asked for your source for your...
- Gotcha. I think there are pretty significant differences, to the extent that equivocations may be occurring (between "knowing that" and "knowing how...
Yes, very true. :up: Right, and therefore upon encountering non-carbon-based life we might recast our findings as relating to carbon-based life. That'...
It's hard to see how a focus on three non-philosophers who the author dislikes amounts to anything more than ad hominem. A philosophy essay needs to a...
So is that what you see as the core of science? But do you think it is true? It seems a basic fact that cannot be brushed aside in favor of a theory t...
I ask in order to try to erect a second erroneous extreme within which to situate the question. So that rather than saying, "Monism bad; pluralism goo...
I'm just asking if you think some disciplines are more paradigmatically scientific than other disciplines (including especially those disciplines that...
These are actually fair points. Note though that they can be made private again after @"hypericin" finishes his meeting. If someone submitted under th...
Do you think it is appropriate to treat certain disciplines as paradigmatic sciences, such as physics or geometry? Along the same lines, would the ped...
- I would suggest allowing his entry but exempting him from consideration for the $10,000 grand prize. :grin: And then delete these three posts to mak...
If we continue in your Analytic route we would simply say that a truth is a true proposition. Truth itself, apart from individual truths, could just b...
On the contrary, your input seems like it might be helpful in making progress. I think that's right. I tried to get at the difference by talking about...
Suppose you said, "There are true , but there are no truths." I would just respond, "What are these that are true?" The ontological problem attaches t...
Yet in fact Galileo's theory was empirically inferior to the geocentric model, which is why it was not adopted by the scientific community. It was Kep...
What point have you made? Spell it out. Here is what I see: I said: L1. To judge is to affirm something as true or false {Oxford Dictionary of Philoso...
I would say that it has something to do with the idea that truth is the water we swim in, and it is hard to identify that sort of thing. Probably only...
Okay, but doesn't that mean that the study of mystical experience broadly possesses the same sort of "quasi-empirical" nature that you ascribe to phen...
- I think I opened the page in a new tab early, before looking at it. You will certainly find a lot of "emptiness" in theistic traditions, and also so...
According to what authority? The gods of Analytic Philosophy, who do not allow a 2-tuple within a 2-tuple? :wink: Your whole presupposition is that on...
Let me highlight a few things from that quote: This is much to my point. To systematically exclude sound and smell is to abandon a motive of "common s...
The problem is that a name is arguably an extrinsic quality. To know some object is not the same as knowing what name certain other people use to refe...
But is mathematics observable by our senses? Count Timothy pointed to those who think that mathematics is what is ultimately real, and where the sense...
What does "it is" mean? Does it mean "it is T"? Or "it is true"? Either way your definition is circular: Former: "By true I mean a property, call it T...
- I would say that "relationship" simply does not have that baggage except in the context of Analytic Philosophy. The reason I would not want to use "...
When you talk about "Aristotle's view of induction," what texts are you referring to? Or are you just thinking of Hume and conflating him with Aristot...
Okay, but do you have an argument for your conclusion? Are we no longer capable of induction in the 21st century? Was Aristotle wrong that we should h...
- I think J asked a good question. Here it is again: If phenomenology is "quasi-empirical" and the study of mystical experiences is not, would this ch...
That seems right to me. I am just trying to think of the wider picture within which to situate the OP. Mathematization could derive from an emphasis o...
This is a very relevant topic on TPF, so I think the submission is appropriate. If one’s notion of epistemic justification is dependent on other epist...
- Okay, well I agree that falsifiability pertains to modus tollens. I don't think our notions of falsification differ on that score. So your argument ...
Okay. Where does Aristotle say that one needs to consider every scientific claim? Do you have an argument that connects your premise to your conclusio...
It seems to me that the problem with the Wittgenstenian approach is that it casts one half as certain and another half as justifiable, and never the t...
Interesting and thoughtful OP. :up: Apparently there are two modern emphases you are bringing out. One is an emphasis on common sensibles, and the oth...
- Crap, I was hoping you would be preoccupied with your essay contest. :razz: But how is a seed not a solid foundation? That seems to be precisely wha...
So again, Aristotle's teleology does not contradict Lavoisier's chemical claim, whereas the idea that water is indivisible does contradict that chemic...
Yep. :up: And note here that the whole crux is the coherence of intersubjective approaches to truth. Is something made true because lots of people bel...
I would say that with @"J" the problem is much deeper than that. Note that when he spoke of “true sentences” J was just borrowing a word out of Banno’...
I require every judgment to be a judgment, and I gave my definition of judgment <here> by following the Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy. Nowhere in th...
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